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Failure state

State of a unit in which it is incapable of fulfilling a required function, excluding maintenance or other planned actions or inability to function caused by the absence of external means

A failure state is often the result of the failure of the unit itself, although it can also be present without a prior failure.

Glossary Technical terms at a glance

F

Failure Failure Failure Failure criticality Failure effect chain Failure likelihood Failure network Failure severity Failure effect Failure effect severity Failure mode Failure state Fault tree analysis First pass yield FMEA FMEA form FMEA structural analysis FMEA system optimization FMEA analysis FMEA example FMEA moderator FMEA-MSR FMEA-MSR FMEA-MSR

F

FMECA FMEDA Focus element Food and Drug Administration Foundation FMEA Function tree Functional analysis Functional safety management (FSM) Functional structure

G

G8D GAMP GD & T GMP

Related glossary terms

  • FMEDA The aim of FMEDA is to determine the proportion of safe failures (SFF = safe failure fraction) and the degree of diagnostic coverage (DC = diagnosti
  • Fault tree analysis In contrast to FMEA, fault tree analysis (FTA) is used for quantitative analysis and to consider multiple failures. This allows the corresponding me
  • Failure Ending of the capability of a unit to fulfill a required function. State of a system element or the entire considered unit in which a function no lo

Glossary Index

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